VSO’s 2023-2024 season opener begins with its first-ever performance of Coleridge-Taylor’s ravishing ballade, with Smetana and Brahms completing the Romantic concert theme. Cellist Joshua Roman and violinist Simone Porter make their Vermont debuts. This concert is conducted by VSO Music Director Andrew Crust.

PROGRAM

SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR   Ballade in a minor

BEDRICH SMETANA   “Ma Vlast” selections:

      II. Vltava (The Moldau)  

      IV. Z českých luhů a hájů (From Bohemia’s Fields and Meadows)

Intermission

JOHANNES BRAHMS   Double Concerto for Violin and Cello